1. Steph Chung competed during the entire CrossFit Games with a broken ankle.

2. Landon Brazzell suffered a massive brain injury in 2012, almost shattering his CrossFit Games dreams.

Landon Brazzell was an aspiring Games athlete when he fell off the rings and cracked his skull open during a local competition. Doctors told him he couldn’t ever do CrossFit again but he obviously didn’t listen. While he never qualified as an individual, his road to recovery led him to qualify as a 35-39 masters athletes where he placed 17th.

3. Patrick Vellner bruised his lung, coughed up blood and still got second.

During the Obstacle Course race, Vellner’s foot got stuck on the cargo net and he tumbled down for a hard fall on his back. After the event, CrossFit Games medical staff examined Vellner, who was coughing up blood. An official examination determined he had a bruised lung. He was given the OK to compete but if there was any more blood he was getting pulled out.

4. 14-year-old Olivia Sulek became the youngest athlete to win her division.

The 5’4″, 140 pound high schooler became the youngest athlete to ever win their division at the CrossFit Games, and she won by 68 points.

5. Sara Sigmundsdottir competed with a broken rib.

Talk about competing through pain. Sigmundsdottir said she hurt her rib during the CrossFit Total (Event 3), which means she completed another five workouts before withdrawing, including a 10th place finish on the marathon row, 6th place on the clean and jerk speed ladder, 6th place on Fibionacci, and an 11th on Madison Triplus.